From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 09:51:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EE316A4B3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgate.sri.com (mailgate.SRI.COM [128.18.243.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3288143FBD for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:51:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 21256 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2003 16:49:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate.sri.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2003 16:49:22 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by mailgate.SRI.COM (SAVSMTP 3.1.0.29) with SMTP id M2003101409492211723 ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:49:22 -0700 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (beast.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.57]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9EGnMBk012351; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:49:22 -0700 Message-Id: <200310141649.h9EGnMBk012351@quarter.csl.sri.com> To: "Stephane Raimbault" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:26:48 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:49:22 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Solutions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:52:00 -0000 > I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are > there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run wel > l on FreeBSD? > > I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking fo > r software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. I use amanda (/usr/ports/misc/amanda-*) on a Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz machine w/ 2Gbytes of RAM running FreeBSD 4.8. The machine contains a 3ware ATA RAID card with 6 120Gbyte disks attached and concatinated into a single volume and is used for temporary holding space for the dump files. The tape and tape changer device is a Dell PowerEdge 122T with an LTO tape drive connected via an Adaptec SCSI controller. I use `mtx' (/usr/ports/misc/mtx) to control the tape changer. To top it off the machine interfaces to the network using an Intel 1000baseSX ethernet over fiber network card which is sub-interfaced using VLANs onto all of the subnets in our switch infrastructure (this means backup traffic doesn't hit the router). This machine backs up approximately 200Gbytes per night. This consists of 157 partitions accross 64 hosts. The hosts are a combination of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, DEC (OFS/1), and AIX machines. I get level zero dumps of each partition every 4 days and sometimes more frequently. Backups start at 7PM and typically run for about 6 to 8 hours. Hope that helps. - Michael Hogsett